The Galaxy National Book Awards (Previously known as the Galaxy British Book Awards) are given annually and promoted by the UK publishing industry trade journal Publishing News. They are also known as the Nibbies. It's all very glamourous and the quality of winners over the years is proven. Simply, one of the world's leading literary prizes.
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2010 Galaxy National Book AwardsWinners Shortlists
Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Book of the Year
One Day by David Nicholls (Hodder & Stoughton) - WINNER
Dead Like You by Peter James by Peter James (Macmillan)
The Ice Cream Girls by Dorothy Koomson (Sphere)
Jump! by Jilly Cooper OBE (Bantam Press)
The Red Queen (Cousins' War Series 2) by Philippa Gregory (Simon & Schuster)
Worth Dying For (Jack Reacher Novel) by Lee Child (Bantam Press)
Non-Fiction Book of the Year
The Making of Modern Britain: From Queen Victoria to VE Day by Andrew Marr (Pan) WINNER
Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos (Bloomsbury)
At Home: A short history of private life by Bill Bryson (Doubleday)
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor (Viking)
Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre (Bloomsbury)
National Book Tokens New Writer of the Year
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal (Chatto & Windus) - WINNER
The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals by Patrick Barkham (Granta Books)
The Legacy by Katherine Webb (Orion)
lMr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt (Fig Tree)
Mr. Rosenblum's List: Or Friendly Guidance for the Aspiring Englishman by Natasha Solomons (Sceptre)
Rupture by Simon Lelic (Picador)
WH Smith Children's Book of the Year
Zog by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler (Alison Green Books) - WINNER
The Great Hamster Massacre by Katie Davies , illus Hannah Shaw (Simon and Schuster)
Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking) (Walker Books)
Mr Stink by David Walliams (HarperCollins Childrens Books)
Shadow by Michael Morpurgo (HarperCollins Childrens Books)
TimeRiders by Alex Scarrow (Puffin)
Tesco Food & Drink Book of the Year
Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi (Ebury Press) - WINNER
The Flavour Thesaurus by Niki Segnit (Bloomsbury)
Jamie's 30-Minute Meals by Jamie Oliver (Michael Joseph)
Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home by Nigella Lawson (Chatto & Windus)
Kitchenella: The secrets of women: heroic, simple, nurturing cookery - for everyone by Rose Prince
Tender: Volume II, A cook's guide to the fruit garden by Nigel Slater(Fourth Estate)
Tesco Biography of the Year
The Fry Chronicles: A Memoir by Stephen Fry (Michael Joseph) - WINNER
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life by Justine Picardie (Harper NonFiction)
Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005–2010 by Chris Mullin (Profile Books)
A Journey by Tony Blair (Hutchinson)
eWait For Me: Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister by Deborah Devonshire (John Murray)
What You See Is What You Get: My Autobiography by Alan Sugar (Macmillan)International Author of the Year
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (Fourth Estate) - WINNER
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín (Penguin)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Millennium Trilogy Book 3) by Stieg Larsson (Quercus/MacLehose Press)
The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Fig Tree)
Room by Emma Donoghue (Picador)
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas (Tuskar Rock Press)
Waterstone's UK Author of the Year
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Fourth Estate) - WINNER
C by Tom McCarthy (Jonathan Cape)
The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell (Headline Review)Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson (Doubleday)
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell (Sceptre)
Trespass by Rose Tremain (Chatto & Windus)
2009 winners Galaxy National Book Awards
Galaxy Book of the Year
Winner: The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House- KateSummerscale (Bloomsbury)
Borders Author of the Year Winner & Shortlist
Winner: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Atlantic Books)
- Somewhere Towards the End Diana Athill (Granta Books)
- The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber)
- Breaking Dawn(Twilight Saga) by Stephenie Meyer (Atom)
- The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama (Canongate)
- The Road Home by Rose Tremain (Vintage)
Tesco Biography of the Year
Winner: Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (Canongate)
- At My Mother's Knee ... by Paul O'Grady (Bantam Press)
- Coming Back to Me: The Autobiography of Marcus Trescothick by Marcus Trescothick (HarperSport)
- Dear Fatty by Dawn French (Century)
- Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton : an Autobiography by J.G Ballard (Fourth Estate)
- That's Another Story: The Autobiography by Julie Walters (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year
Winner: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (MacLehose Press)
- Child 44by Tom Rob Smith (Simon & Schuster)
- The Business by Martina Cole (Headline)
- No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay (Orion)
- Revelation (Shardlake) by C.J Sansom (Pan)
- When Will There be Good News? By Kate Atkinson (Doubleday)
Waterstone’s Newcomer of the Year
Winner: Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (Simon & Schuster)
- Inside the Whale by Jennie Rooney (Vintage)
- Loving Frankby Nancy Horan (Sceptre)
- The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama (Abacus)
- Mudbound by Hilary Jordan (Windmill)
- One of Us by Melissa Benn (Vintage)
Sainsbury’s Popular Fiction Award
Winner: Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks (Michael Joseph)
- Azincourtby Bernard Cornwell (HarperCollins)
- The Outcastby Sadie Jones (Vintage)
- Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern (Harper)
- Things I Want My Daughters to Knowby Elizabeth Noble (Penguin)
- This Charming Manby Marian Keyes (Michael Joseph)
Play.com Popular Non-Fiction Award
Winner: The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury
- The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson (Allen Lane)
- Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s by Jennifer Worth (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
- A History of Modern Britainby Andrew Marr (Pan)
- The Mighty Book of Booshby Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt (Canongate)
- Stephen Fry in America by Stephen Fry (HarperCollins)
Richard & Judy's Best Read of the Year
Winner: When Will There be Good News? By Kate Atkinson (Doubleday)
- The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The Woman Who Scandalised 1920s Society and Became White Mischief's Infamous Seductress by Frances Osborne (Virago)
- The Brutal Art by Jesse Kellerman (Sphere)
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (Atlantic)
- December by Elizabeth H. Winthrop (Sceptre)
- The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson (Canongate)
- The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite by Beatrice Colin (John Murray)
- Netherland by Joseph O'Neill (Fourth Estate)
- The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff (Doubleday)
- The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill Houseby Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury)
WHsmith Children's Book of the Year
Winner: Breaking Dawn (Twilight Saga) by Stephenie Meyer (Atom)
- Dinosaurs Love Underpants by Claire Freedman, illus Ben Cort (Simon & Schuster Children's Books)
- Horrid Henry Robs the Bankby Francesca Simon (Orion Children's Books)
- "Captain Underpants" and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People (Captain Underpants) by Dav Pilkey (Scholastic)
- Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox: 6by Eoin Colfer (Puffin)
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Standard Edition by J.K. Rowling (Bloomsbury)
Complete Winners Lists 1991 to 2008 with Amazon Book Links for more information click here
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2008 Winners
The Galaxy Book of the Year
On Chesil Beach
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwanThe Book People Outstanding Achievement Award
JK RowlingRichard & Judy's (left)
Best Read of the Year
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniWH Smith Children's Book of the Year Award
Horrid Henry And The Abominable Snowman by Francesca Simon Published by Orion
Tesco Biography of the Year Award
My Booky Wook
Crime Thriller of the Year Award
Book of the Dead by Patricia CornwellWaterstone's
Newcomer of the Year Award
What Was Lost
Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim EdwardsPlay.com
Popular Non-Fiction Award
Long Way Down by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman
Richard & JudyBest Read of the Year
Ten titles, each a good read, but only one will be named Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year2008 ShortlistRandom Acts of Heroic Love
Thousand Splendid Suns , Khaled Hosseini, Bloosmbury- winner
The Rose Of Sebastopol
A Quiet Belief In Angels
Notes from an Exhibition
Then We Came to the End
The Visible World
Mister Pip
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
The Welsh Girl
2008
Readers Digest Author of the Year Five authors who have made waves with their writing, including the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature
Khaled Hosseini for A Thousand Splendid Suns
Doris Lessing for The Cleft
Ian McEwan for On Chesil Beach
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Half of a Yellow Sun
David Peace for The Damned Utd
2007 Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year
The Interpretation of Murder
Readers Digest Author of the Year
WINNER - Richard Dawkins,OUP & Bantam PressShortlisted
Borders Book of the Year
WINNER - The Dangerous Book for Boys, Conn and Hal Iggulden, HarperCollinsShortlisted
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WHSmith Children's Book of the Year
WINNER -Flanimals of the Deep, Ricky Gervais, Faber & FaberShortlisted
Booksamazon.co.uk biography of the year
WINNER - The Sound of Laughter, Peter Kay Century
Newcomer of the Year
WINNER - The Island
Sainsbury's Popular Fiction
WINNER - Anybody Out There?
Tesco Sports Book of the Year
WINNER - Gerrard: My Autobiography, 
PLAY.COM TV & Film Book of the Year
WINNER - The Devil Wears Prada
Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year
WINNER - Labyrinth 
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PREVIOUS WINNERS 1991-2006 The Lifetime Achievement Award
2006 Jamie Oliver
2005 Sir John Mortimer
2004 Sir David Attenborough
2003 Alan Bennett
2002 Mark Barty-King
2001 Ernest Hecht
2000 Spike Milligan
1999 Maeve Binchy
1998 Jilly Cooper
1997 Paul Scherer
1996 Wilbur Smith
1995 Delia Smith
1994 Catherine Cookson
1993 Dr. D.G.HessayonRichard & Judy Best Read of the Year
2006 Labyrinth
2005 Cloud Atlas
2004 The Lovely Bones
2006 Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince: Children's Edition (Harry Potter 6)
2005 The Da Vinci Code
2004 Eats shoots and leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
2003 Stupid White Men: ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
2002 Billy
2001 Man and Boy
2000 Managing My Life: The Autobiography
1999 Birthday Letters
1998 Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel
1997 Longitude
1996 Delia's Winter Collection
1995 Writing Home
1994 Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
The Author of the Year
2008 - On Chesil Beach
2006 - Alan Bennett
2005 Sheila Hancock
2004 Alexander McCall Smith
2003 Sarah Waters
2002 Philip Pullman
2001 Nigella Lawson
2000 J K Rowling
1999 Beryl Bainbridge
1998 Louis de Bernieres
1997 Bill Bryson
1996 Salman Rushdie
1995 Sebastian Faulks
1994 Roddy Doyle
1993 Andrew Morton
1992 Peter Mayle
1991 Peter Ackroyd
1990 HRH, Prince of Wales
The Children's Book of the Year
2006 Ark Angel (Alex Rider Adventures)
2005 The Gruffalo's Child
2004 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Adult Edition
2003 Girls in Tears (Girls)
2002 Artemis Fowl
2001 The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials)
2000 The Illustrated Mum
1998 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Book 1)
1997 Northern Lights (Golden Compass) (His Dark Materials) (His Dark Materials)
1996 The Hutchinson Illustrated Treasury of Children's Literature
1995 Allan & Janet Ahlberg
1994 Anne Fine
1993 Raymond Briggs
1992 Dick King-Smith
1991 Anne Fine
1990 Roald DahlThe Illustrated Children's Book of the Year
1995The Most Amazing Pop-up Science Book (Watts Amazing Science Books)
1994 Mummy Laid an Egg (Red Fox Picture Books)
1993 Penguin Small (Book & CD)
1992 Farmer Duck (Big Books)
1991 The Mousehole Cat (Book & CD)
2004 England's Thousand Best Houses
2003 Sahara
2002 The Blue Planet
2001 The Beatles Anthology
2000 Century: One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Regression, Suffering and Hope, 1899-1999. Small Edition
1999 Ethel and Ernest
1998 Lost Gardens Of Heligan (Updated edition)
1997 Flora Britannica: The Definitive New Guide to Britain's Wild Flowers, Plants and Trees
1996 The River Cafe Cookbook
1995 The Art Book
The Newcomer of the Year
2006 Marina Lewycka
2005 Susanna Clarke
2004 Monica Ali
2003 Allison Pearson
2002 Pete McCarthy
2001 Zadie Smith
2000 Sort Of Books and Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart
1999 Borders UK
1998 Daisy & Tom
1997 Kate Atkinson
1990 Bryce CourtenayBack to top
The TV & Film Book of the Year
2006The Constant Gardener
2005 Himalaya
2004 How Clean Is Your House?
2003 What Not To Wear: The Rules
2006 Sharon Osbourne Sharon Osbourne Extreme: My Autobiography
2005 My Life
2004 Toast 
2003 Churchill: A Biography
2006 The Time Traveler's Wife
2005 Cloud AtlasDavid Mitchell (Sceptre)
2004 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Adult Edition
2005 William Pitt the Younger: A Biography
2004 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
2006 Being Freddie: My Story So Far
2005 Gazza: My Story Paul Gascoigne (Headline)
2004 Martin Johnson Autobiography
2004 Forgotten Voices of the Great War: In Association with the Imperial War Museum (Brentford Trilogy Series)
2003 A Series Of Unfortunate Events Complete 13 Book Audio CD Set, 53 CDs, 58 Hours written by Lemony Snicket, read by Tim Curry (Collins)
2002 The Laying on of Hands (BBC Radio Collection)
2006 The Take
2005 Fleshmarket Close
2006 Diana Evans
2005 Hari KunzruThe Fastest Selling Biography of All Time
2004 David Beckham: My Side - The Autobiography
1993 Michael Palin Pole to Pole : With Michael Palin
1992 Mark Shand Travels on My Elephant
1991 V.S. Naipaul India: A Million Mutinies
1990 Peter Mayle A Year in Provence
1994 Terry PratchettBestseller of the Year
1991 Delia Smith's Christmas
The Galaxy Book of the Year
On Chesil Beach
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwanThe Book People Outstanding Achievement Award
JK RowlingRichard & Judy's (left)Best Read of the Year
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniWH Smith Children's Book of the Year Award
Horrid Henry And The Abominable Snowman by Francesca Simon Published by OrionTesco Biography of the Year Award
My Booky Wook
Book of the Dead by Patricia CornwellWaterstone's Newcomer of the Year Award
What Was Lost
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Play.com Popular Non-Fiction Award
Long Way Down by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman
Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year
Ten titles, each a good read, but only one will be named Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year2008 ShortlistRandom Acts of Heroic Love
Thousand Splendid Suns , Khaled Hosseini, Bloosmbury- winner
The Rose Of Sebastopol
A Quiet Belief In Angels
Notes from an Exhibition
Then We Came to the End
The Visible World
Mister Pip
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
The Welsh Girl
2008 Readers Digest Author of the Year
Five authors who have made waves with their writing, including the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for LiteratureShortlistKhaled Hosseini for A Thousand Splendid Suns
Doris Lessing for The Cleft
Ian McEwan for On Chesil Beach
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Half of a Yellow Sun
David Peace for The Damned Utd
2008 Waterstone's Newcomer of the Year
Five writers who have made an impact with their first published booksShortlistRajiv Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone
Catherine O'Flynn What Was Lost
Stef Penney The Tenderness of Wolves
Paul Torday Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Markus Zusak The Book Thief 
2008 WHSmith Children's Book of the Year
20 titles - four in each age category - are on the Children's Book of the Year long list. The winner in each category has formed the shortlistShortlistThat's Not My Penguin Fiona Watt Usborne
Horrid Henry And The Abominable Snowman (Book & CD) Francesca Simon Orion Children's Books
Katie Price's Perfect Ponies: My Pony Care Book Katie Price Red Fox
Born to Run
Kiss
Three masters and two mistresses of the criminal genre have produced some of their finest work yet.ShortlistBad Luck and Trouble
Book of the Dead
The Tin Roof Blowdown
The Grave Tattoo
Exit Music
2008 Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award
An eclectic, international mix, three from well-established authors and two from first-time novelistsThe Memory Keeper's Daughter (Thorndike Paperback Bestsellers)
The Ghost
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The House at Riverton
An Absolute Scandal
2008 PLAY.com Popular Non-fiction Award
Broadcasters and TV personalities dominate this list, which draws on popular culture, food and travel.ShortlistDon't Stop Me Now 
Nigella Express
A History of Modern Britain
The Wild Places
Long Way Down
2008 Tesco Biography of the Year
Five of the most astonishing biographies of the last year. Though each very different from the other, all showcase lives extremely well-lived.ShortlistMy Booky Wook
The Blair Years
Spilling the Beans
On The Edge
Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman, Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy
The Book People Lifetime Achievement Award
This Award recognises an enduringly popular author whose books have made an outstanding contribution to contemporary literature.Back to topPopular US Author Grisham Wins 2007 British Award
John Grisham (right) was awarded the highly regarded Life Achievement Award at the 2007 British Book Awards. Obviously impressed with occasion, Grisham told the gathered throng, "I can't wait to go back to the States with this Nibbie and tell people how books should be celebrated". Grisham's, Playing for Pizza
The Girls
Restless
Love in the Present Tense
Semi-detached
This Book Will Save Your Life
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Testament of Gideon Mack
Marina Lewycka Viking
Kate Mosse Orion
Jodi Picoult Hodder & StoughtonBorders Book of the YearWINNER - The Dangerous Book for Boys, Conn and Hal Iggulden, HarperCollinsShortlisted
The God Delusion,
The Island
The Night Watch
The Sound of Laughter
Suite Francaise
The Boy in Striped Pyjamas
The Boy in Striped Pyjamas
Peter Pan in Scarlet
Wintersmith
The Incredible Book Eating Boy
WINNER - The Sound of Laughter, Peter Kay Century
Humble Pie
Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man
Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
Michael Cox, The Meaning of Night
Jane Harris, The Observations, Faber & Faber
Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
Close
The Constant Princess
Wicked!
Pele: The Autobiography
Penguins Stopped Play: Eleven Village Cricketers Take on the World
There's an Awful Lot of Bubbly in Brazil: The Life and Times of a Bon Viveur
QI: The Book of Animal Ignorance
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
"Planet Earth": The Photographs
We Brits
Londonstani
The Inheritance of Loss
WINNER - Labyrinth
The History of Love
The Farm: The Story of One Family and the English Countryside
The Conjuror's Bird
Arthur and George
The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
March: A Love Story in a Time of War
Empress Orchid
The Lincoln Lawyer
WINNER- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6)[Children's Edition]
Margrave of the Marshes
The World According to Clarkson
Sharon Osbourne Extreme: My Autobiography
Jamie's Italy
The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade
WINNER - Sharon Osbourne Extreme: My Autobiography
Next to You: Caron's Courage Remembered by Her Mother
Stuart: A Life Backwards
Margrave of the Marshes
WINNER - Ark Angel: Bk. (Alex Rider 6)
Eldest
Silverfin: A James Bond Adventure (Young Bond)
Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin
I, Coriander
"...and That's When It Fell Off in My Hand." (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson)
WINNER - The Time Traveler's Wife
Labyrinth
My Sister's Keeper
The Undomestic Goddess
WINNER -Alan Bennett Faber / ProfileShortlisted
Carlos Ruiz Zafón Phoenix
Kazuo Ishiguro Faber
John Banville Picador2006 BCA Crime Thriller of the Year
WINNER - The Take,
Lifeless
The Lighthouse
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Five Star Paperback)
WINNER - Diana Evans for 26a (P.S.)
Nadeem Aslam for Maps for Lost Lovers
Zadie Smith for On Beauty
Helen Oyeyemi for The Icarus Girl
The Historian
The Vesuvius Club: A Lucifer Box Novel
A Year in the Merde
WINNER - Auschwitz: A New History
Mao: The Unknown Story
Istanbul: Memories of a City
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West
WINNER - The Constant Gardener
Coast: The Journey Continues
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia)
Rick Stein's French Odyssey
WINNER - Being Freddie: My Story So Far
What If I Had Never Tried It
Race Against Time
My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes
Back to topPREVIOUS WINNERS 1991-2006The Lifetime Achievement Award
2006 Jamie Oliver
2005 Sir John Mortimer
2004 Sir David Attenborough
2003 Alan Bennett
2002 Mark Barty-King
2001 Ernest Hecht
2000 Spike Milligan
1999 Maeve Binchy
1998 Jilly Cooper
1997 Paul Scherer
1996 Wilbur Smith
1995 Delia Smith
1994 Catherine Cookson
1993 Dr. D.G.HessayonRichard & Judy Best Read of the Year
2006 Labyrinth
2005 Cloud Atlas
2004 The Lovely Bones
2006 Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince: Children's Edition (Harry Potter 6)
2005 The Da Vinci Code
2004 Eats shoots and leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
2003 Stupid White Men: ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
2002 Billy
2001 Man and Boy
2000 Managing My Life: The Autobiography
1999 Birthday Letters
1998 Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel
1997 Longitude
1996 Delia's Winter Collection
1995 Writing Home
1994 Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
2006 - Alan Bennett
2005 Sheila Hancock
2004 Alexander McCall Smith
2003 Sarah Waters
2002 Philip Pullman
2001 Nigella Lawson
2000 J K Rowling
1999 Beryl Bainbridge
1998 Louis de Bernieres
1997 Bill Bryson
1996 Salman Rushdie
1995 Sebastian Faulks
1994 Roddy Doyle
1993 Andrew Morton
1992 Peter Mayle
1991 Peter Ackroyd
1990 HRH, Prince of WalesThe Children's Book of the Year
2006 Ark Angel (Alex Rider Adventures)
2005 The Gruffalo's Child
2004 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Adult Edition
2003 Girls in Tears (Girls)
2002 Artemis Fowl
2001 The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials)
2000 The Illustrated Mum
1998 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Book 1)
1997 Northern Lights (Golden Compass) (His Dark Materials) (His Dark Materials)
1996 The Hutchinson Illustrated Treasury of Children's Literature
1995 Allan & Janet Ahlberg
1994 Anne Fine
1993 Raymond Briggs
1992 Dick King-Smith
1991 Anne Fine
1990 Roald DahlThe Illustrated Children's Book of the Year
1995The Most Amazing Pop-up Science Book (Watts Amazing Science Books)
1994 Mummy Laid an Egg (Red Fox Picture Books)
1993 Penguin Small (Book & CD)
1992 Farmer Duck (Big Books)
1991 The Mousehole Cat (Book & CD)
2004 England's Thousand Best Houses
2003 Sahara
2002 The Blue Planet
2001 The Beatles Anthology
2000 Century: One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Regression, Suffering and Hope, 1899-1999. Small Edition
1999 Ethel and Ernest
1998 Lost Gardens Of Heligan (Updated edition)
1997 Flora Britannica: The Definitive New Guide to Britain's Wild Flowers, Plants and Trees
1996 The River Cafe Cookbook
1995 The Art Book
2006 Marina Lewycka
2005 Susanna Clarke
2004 Monica Ali
2003 Allison Pearson
2002 Pete McCarthy
2001 Zadie Smith
2000 Sort Of Books and Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart
1999 Borders UK
1998 Daisy & Tom
1997 Kate Atkinson
1990 Bryce CourtenayBack to topThe TV & Film Book of the Year
2006The Constant Gardener
2005 Himalaya
2004 How Clean Is Your House?
2003 What Not To Wear: The Rules
2006 Sharon Osbourne Sharon Osbourne Extreme: My Autobiography
2005 My Life
2004 Toast
2003 Churchill: A Biography
2006 The Time Traveler's Wife
2005 Cloud AtlasDavid Mitchell (Sceptre)
2004 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Adult Edition
2005 William Pitt the Younger: A Biography
2004 Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
2006 Being Freddie: My Story So Far
2005 Gazza: My Story Paul Gascoigne (Headline)
2004 Martin Johnson Autobiography
2004 Forgotten Voices of the Great War: In Association with the Imperial War Museum (Brentford Trilogy Series)
2003 A Series Of Unfortunate Events Complete 13 Book Audio CD Set, 53 CDs, 58 Hours written by Lemony Snicket, read by Tim Curry (Collins)
2002 The Laying on of Hands (BBC Radio Collection)
2006 The Take
2005 Fleshmarket Close
2006 Diana Evans
2005 Hari KunzruThe Fastest Selling Biography of All Time
2004 David Beckham: My Side - The Autobiography
1993 Michael Palin Pole to Pole : With Michael Palin
1992 Mark Shand Travels on My Elephant
1991 V.S. Naipaul India: A Million Mutinies
1990 Peter Mayle A Year in Provence
1994 Terry PratchettBestseller of the Year
1991 Delia Smith's Christmas
